Pritchett v. State

LIVINGSTON, Chief Justice.

Supreme Court Rule 39, Code of Alabama 1940, Title 7 Appendix, provides in part, that an application to this court for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals to revise or correct a judgment of that court must be filed with the Clerk of the Supreme Court within fifteen days after the action of said Court of Appeals upon the application for rehearing, and that compliance with this rule is mandatory and jurisdictional.

■ We have also held that placing the application and brief in the mail within the prescribed period is not a compliance with the rule. Troup v. State,…